Sports Weekend with Steve Thomson

A hot lap around the Sports Weekend!

The full hour of The Sports Weekend with Steve Thomson featuring Lindsey Brown. Guests include Heather Rule and Steve Carney. Plus, Read and React!

Who's staying and who's gone for the Minnesota Frost, Larkin thoughts

Heather Rule is an award-winning freelance sports journalist who covers the Minnesota Frost and Minnesota Wild. She joins Steve and Lindsey to talk about the ongoing PWHL expansion process and what’s changed with the Minnesota Frost. We’re further along in the expansion process, the overall sense of confusion still in the air. Thankfully, the Frost have re-signed some of their main core members but they’ve lost some fan favorites as well. Heather updates us on where players are signing and on the draft that features a few excellent players vying to be selected first overall in the draft. They touch on some NHL storylines with Game 6 of the Cup Final on the docket for tomorrow and ponder the potential of Dylan Larkin in a Minnesota Wild sweater. Find Heather’s work at https://writtenruleofsports.substack.com/

Corporate greed and football go together like peanut butter and jelly

It’s a packed truncated Sports Weekend with Steve Thomson featuring Lindsey Brown. To kick off the hour, Steve and Lindsey discuss the Chicago Bears stadium saga and the news that they’re moving to Indiana. Then, Heather Rule stops by to catch us up on the ongoing PWHL expansion process as the league grows to 12 teams. Finally, Steve Carney with a quick check in from the lake. He says the heat has really impacted the fish. He says the lake are as low as he’s seen and that we need rain. He says things are escalating too quickly and that nature demands gradual changes to sustain expected conditions.

Steve Carney says that the fish say it's too damn hot

Steve Carney with a quick check in from the lake. He says the heat has really impacted the fish. He says the lake are as low as he’s seen and that we need rain. He says things are escalating too quickly and that nature demands gradual changes to sustain expected conditions.

Heather Rule on PWHL expansion process, Frost impact

Heather Rule is an award-winning freelance sports journalist who covers the Minnesota Frost and Minnesota Wild. It’s one of those unprecedented times we’ve seen too many of but we’ve never seen an expansion process quite like what the PWHL is executing. Heather joins to make sense of it and most importantly how it impacts the Minnesota Frost. Lindsey asks about Heather’s read on the long term health of the league that has expanded from six to twelve teams in two years. Steve wonders when the league will start inviting others into the currently private ownership model. Find Heather’s work at https://writtenruleofsports.substack.com/